Kim Fay

Sun Mar 16 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-07:00

The Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle

Elliott Bay Book Company
Publisher/HostElliott Bay Book Company
Kim Fay
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Kim Fay, of the instant national bestseller Love & Saffron, returns to the store to celebrate the release of her new novel, Kate and Frida
About this Event

About the Book

, a bright and comforting novel, follows the surprising friendship between two young women in 1990s Seattle and Paris, illuminating the power of books to change our lives.

Sometimes a book can change your life...

Twentysomething Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the city’s butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But then she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, and receives more than just the book she requests. A friendship begins that will redefine the person she wants to become.

Seattle bookseller Kate Fair is transformed by Frida’s free spirit, spurred to believe in herself as a writer, to kiss her handsome coworker, and to find beauty even in loss. Through the most tumultuous years of their young lives—personally and globally—Kate and Frida sustain and nourish each other as they learn the necessity of embracing joy, especially through our darkest hours.

This mouthwatering oasis of a novel is a love letter to bookshops and booksellers, to the passion we bring to life in our twenties, and to the last precious years before the internet changed everything.

About the Author

Born in Seattle and raised all over Washington State, Kim Fay is the author of the national bestseller Love & Saffron and Edgar Award–nominated The Map of Lost Memories. A former independent bookseller, she lived for many years in Vietnam, the inspiration for Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam. Fay now lives in Los Angeles with her musician husband, Jim Vitale, and their dog, Mabel.

Purchase your copy of Kate and Frida here.

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The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States

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